Professor Hamid Ghany has been conferred with the title of “Honorary Professor” for his contributions to Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs at The UWI and across the region. His appointment is for the period October 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023.
Professor Ghany, who recently retired as Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at UWI St Augustine, is Professor in Constitutional Affairs and Parliamentary Studies, and a former Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He currently serves on attachment to SALISES.
Universities like The UWI confer the title of Honorary Professor in recognition of an individual’s special contribution to a subject area.
Apart from his directorship at SALISES, a post he held from 2017 to 2021, Professor Ghany created the Faculty of Social Science’s Constitutional Affairs and Parliamentary Studies Unit and the Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture Series. He has taught political sciences and governance courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 1993. He was Course Coordinator and Lecturer of Law, Governance, the Economy and Society from 1999 to 2012.
Professor Ghany has authored two books and made substantial contributions to numerous other publications. As part of the 50th anniversary of the Independence of Trinidad and Tobago, he received the Chaconia Medal (Gold), the Republic’s second highest national award, for “long and meritorious service to Trinidad and Tobago” as an educator in the field of education.
